Bottle-filling machine.



A. T. COLLINS. BoTTLE FILLING MAGHINE.

APPLICATION IILBDDEO. 5. 1907.

Patented De@.8,1908.

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ARTHUR T. COLLINS, OF SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

Application filed December 5, 1907.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR T. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Swarthmore, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to that class of bottle filling machines in which substances or materials are filled into bottles by imparting to the same a shaking movement; and in such connection it relates particularly to means, which in place of the shaking movement subjects the receptacle containing the bottles and substance or material to be introduced therein to a series of blows in a vertical direction, which blows when the bottles are completely filled are increased in force so as to first by the direction of the blows obtain a uniform movement of all the bottles; second to introduce into each bottle the same quantity of substance or material by packing the substance or material uniformly tight therein up to the upper end of the bottle neck; and third when so completely filled and the quantity of substance for each bottle is thus measured to still more tightly pack the substance or material to provide the necessary space to permit of the closing of the bottle by a stopper or cork.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a view illustrating partly in elevation and partly in section, the bottle filling machine embodying main features of my said invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the machine; and Fig. 3 is a top or plan view thereof.

Referring to the drawings, 5 represents the standard of the machine, which by means of bearings 4, support shafts 6 and 7, by engaging contracted and eccentrically arranged ends 8 thereof. To certain of the ends 8, of the shafts 6 and 7, at one side of the standard 5, are secured sprocket-wheels 9, which are connected with each other by means of a sprocket-chain 10. rlhe sprocketwheel and chain serve to transmit rotary movement imparted to the shaft, preferably by a crank-arm 11, to the shaft 6, so that each shaft by turning its eccentrically arranged ends 8, in the standard 5, may be Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Serial No. 405,151.

raised or lowered therein for a purpose to be presently more fully explained.

One mode of holding the shafts 6 and 7, in the position given, consists of a guide 12, secured to the standard 5, through the substantially semi-circular slot 14;, of which passes a bolt 15, carried by the crank-arm 11, which bolt with the aid of a thumb-nut 16, serves to clamp the arm 11, to the guide 12. Between the shafts 6 and 7, and carried by the bearings 4, in a position below the upper surface thereof, are arranged shafts 17 and 18, each of which within the standard is provided with a bar 19, which projects above the shafts 6 and 7. lVhen the shafts 17 and 18, are rotated the bar 19, is brought into and out of engagement with the bottom 21, of a receptacle 20, loosely resting on the shafts 6 and 7, thus lifting the receptacle and then dropping the same back onto these shafts. ln order to rotate the shafts 17 and 18, with the same speed to insure the simultaneous engagement and disengagement of the bars 19, with the receptacle 20, the shaft 18 is positively driven by a pulley 22, which movement, by means of a gear-wheel 24, secured to the shaft 18, is transmitted to the shaft 17, by a gear-wheel 25, .ieshing with the gear-wheel 24.

To prevent sidewise movements of the receptacle 20, and to confine the movements of such to a vertical direction, the receptacle is held in position on the shafts 6 and 7, and when leavingthe same is controlled by guides 26, secured to the standard 5. On the bottom 21, of the receptacle 20, so supported are first placed bottles, cans or the like 28, and thereafter is introduced into the receptacle the substance or material 29, to be filled into the bottles, which covers the same to a height which insures the proper filling of the bottles. The shafts 17 and 18, are then set in rotation and by the intervention of the bars 19 thereof, the receptacle and its contents are subjected to a series of blows, the force of which remain uniform as the blows are determined by the height to and from -which the receptacle is permitted to rise and fall back onto the shafts 6 and 7. By the aid of these blows the substance or material is forced into the bottles and packed uniformly tight therein so that each bottle will contain the same quantity of substance or material, when filled to the upper end of the bottle neck. As soon as the bottles are completely filled, the surplus substance or material is removed therefrom to lay bare the neck of the bottles, after which the receptacle and bottles are subjected to one or more' blows, but in this instance a greater force in the following preferred manner The crank-arm ll, is so turned as to permit of the lowering of the shafts 6 and 7, in the standard by the contracted and eccentrically arranged ends S thereof. The bars 19, when engaging the receptacle 20, will thus raise the same to and drop the bottles from a greater height than before onto the shafts 6 and 7, and the force of the blows will correspondingly increase. The substance or material in the bottle will thus still more tightly be packed in the bottles and by such further compression a space will be formed in the bottle necks sufficiently to permit of the closing of the same by a stopper or cork.

As the receptacle 20, and its contents is not subjected to side movements, but only to movements in a vertical plane and striking with its bottom on both shafts 6 and 7, at the'same time, it follows that each bottle wherever placed in the receptacle Q0, will be subjected to blows of equal force. The substance resting directly above the bottles is thus gradually forced and packed therein under the same degree of compression. Each of the bottles will contain therefore not only the same quantity by measure, but also substantially by weight the same quantity. In order to protect the bottom of the receptacle 20, the same at the portion struck b v the bar 19, is provided with plates 30.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine of the character described, a series of shafts with eccentric portions, a receptacle for holding bottles and substance or material to be introduced into the bottles, loosely carried by said shafts, a second series of shafts with projecting means adapted to contact with said receptacle to deliver vertical blows, byri'sing and dropping, to force the substanceor material into the bottles, means for rotating said second series of shafts, said first series of shafts controlling the force of said blows, and means to partially rotate said first series of shafts and to hold the same in required position, sub-Pv stantially as described.

2. In a machine of the character described, a series of shafts with eccentric portions, a receptacle for holding bottles and a substance or material to be introduced into said bottles, loosely carried by said shafts, a second series of shafts with projecting bars adapted when brought into and out of engagement with said receptacle respectively to raise and drop the same, means for rotating said second series of shafts, the eccentric portions of said shafts by holding the receptacle in varying elevated positions adapted to control the force of the blows delivered by the bars to permit dropping of said receptacle when lifted from varying heights to uniformly pack substance or material into the bottles and compact the same therein when filled and means to rotate said first series of shafts and to hold the same in required position, substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character described, a series of shafts with eccentric portions, means to connect the shafts with each other, means to turn and hold one of said shafts in a given position, a receptacle to hold bottles and substance or material to be introduced thereinto and carried by said shafts, a second series of shafts with bars, means to rotate said second series of shafts to bring the bars thereof into and out of engagement with said receptacle to permit of introducing substance or material into the bottles by the rising and dropping, the eccentric portions of said shafts controlling the force of the vertical blows of said bars against said re* ccptacle and the dropping of said receptacle, when lifted, from varying heights to uniformly pack the substance or material into the bottles and compact the same therein and guide-means to prevent sidewise movements of said receptacle, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR T. COLLINS.

I/Vitnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLAS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

